Tally Hall’s “Hymn for a Scarecrow”: An Analysis

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and here it is everyone! i do apologize for the long wait! i haven’t ever made a youtube video like this before and really tried my best! i love analysis and i want to continue and strive for improvement. thank you so much for watching and supporting me! also if you know any good mics please let me know down below!
also if anyone was wondering, this video was inspired by an essay i wrote in one of my writing classes last semester. i of course edited it a lot more and while i mention my feelings within the script, i removed much of it as i’m not 100% comfortable sharing my entire experience with depression. the essay was around 3-4 pages, but once i decided i was going to make a youtube video i edited it and added more detail. it now sits at 7 pages and 4,735 words :)
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[please subscribe to vulpes_iridis they make wonderful tally hall lyrical videos, i’ve linked their hymn for a scarecrow one below..]
“Hymn for a Scarecrow Lyrics”: • Tally Hall - A Hymn fo...
もののけ姫: • もののけ姫 (Jazz Version)
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@rxdvelvet 3 года назад

posting this here in case those who watch the video need to skip a certain part. when editing in YT Studio it wouldn’t let me post the time stamp on screen at 20:37. and it was too late to go back in and manually do it. so if you need to skip that part the time stamp is 23:18

@NiennaFan1 7 месяцев назад

I do think it would be good to say what kind of content, even vaguely, you are warning for, because most people are sensitive to certain types of commonly triggering content but not others (the content being warned for is hurting yourself, for those who need to know what the content is so they know if they can watch it or not)

@joshkorte9020 Год назад

I think it's lyrically literal and metaphorical. He's actually singing about a scarecrow, wondering if it has depression like him and if others can perceive it in the scarecrow and himself.

@CautiousHaze 3 года назад

I just want to know whether I may be a banana man. I've been hopping over the white hot sand for far too long.

@CautiousHaze 2 года назад

Many moons have passed but finally ,I have received praise for my strenuous task of commenting on your video. Thank you

@vickytrixi5813 3 года назад

i love this you should do a ruler of everything analysis

@rxdvelvet 3 года назад

already in the writing process of it! :) glad you enjoyed it!

@tally_hal 3 года назад

@@rxdvelvet hope this isnt too much of a bother but could you maybe make one for sacred beast too? i have trouble figuring out the meaning behind it. and maybe a bit of comparison with the lyrics from the demo too which imo seem darker. anyway really cool video! cant wait to see what you upload next :D

@rxdvelvet 3 года назад

@@tally_hal not a bother at all! id love to make one! would you like to do a collaboration together ^^ ! we can maybe make some ideas up together but if not i’d love to start writing a script!

@gabrielneves1207 2 года назад

I took the song to be about someone at a dead end thankless job. My reasoning for this was cuz the whole song is about the scarecrow, something that guards wheat fields and who is never acknowledged for their work and thus suffers from it. He just hangs around for a living pinned down like a butterfly who's a monarch of always forgiving the people who trample over his kindness and is always seemingly circled by crows (in this case bad clients customers/people who think your work isn't valuable) and at the end of this miserable existence of basically being a doormat the singer asks if hes suicidal. Of course the interpretation I have is flawed, a lot of people who work thankless jobs aren't deppresed, and of course that wouldn't necessarily make them suicidal. But I think the song reflects on how a low end job can ruin your mental state and how at the end you might just think of yourself as a pinned down little butterfly that just stands around for a living

@amyythest 3 года назад

maybe "wind" in this song represents time and/or the passage of it. the phrase "the wind blows" to me represents the passage of time and "the wind knows" would then represent how you, after a time, look back on your depressive state and understand it better. also, i think farmer jim could also represent the part of your mind that wants to get out of depression. farmer jim humming could represent that part of your psyche saying you'll be okay or trying to get you out of depression, knowing you heard that, and hoping those thoughts would help. just a couple of thoughts, hope to hear what you think.

@rxdvelvet 3 года назад

oh wow! those are amazing ideas! especially since the wind is a universal thing, and i really agree with the farmer jim part as music can also be really therapeutic and healing to others. never thought of it like that before! thank you so much for the input! ♥️

@nyaaannn3981 2 года назад

I think "monarch of ever forgiving" could mean the scarecrow is too numb or tired to hold a grudge at a person no matter what they've done, and the people act really relieved and happy when they are forgiven, saying the scarecrow is a really forgiving person just to hurt the scarecrow again, and the scarecrow has forgiven so many horrible people so many times just not to be lonely and use up energy they could be deemed a "monarch of ever forgiving." Or maybe I just like sad endings lol

@pho_is_not_interesting Год назад

I am really struggling with depression and have been for a few years now. Hymn for a Scarecrow has to be one of my favourite songs ever. It has helped me through many panic attacks and it deeply resonates with me. Seeing someone else have a similar interpretation as me feels so validating. thank you for this video :)

@k0giku 2 года назад

i absolutely adore this song. i listened to it on the bus ride home from a middle school field trip, where my friends were being really toxic and horrible to me. listening to the song now always gives me the biggest butterflies, thinking of that bus ride home. but i suck at analyzing lyrics, so thank you for finally explaining to me what this could mean

@ptolerov Год назад

This just shows how smart the writing skills of Joe Hawley... also the fact that he cried while doing the famous Ann Arbor live while playing this song could show how depressing this song is...

@Messier__ 3 года назад

Great analysis, I always assumed it had something to do with loneliness.

@rxdvelvet 3 года назад

thank you so much!

@user-vn1gh4yx2t Год назад

A year late , but let me add my pov on this I think the line "Birds may believe at a distance" Refers to keeping people away so they don't know how miserable you are , since scarecrows are used to keep birds away from them by mimicking 'normal human behaviour' aka being mentally fine. Also my interpretation of 'the wind' is life. The wind knowing is 'life' knowing what's to come in the future and the line "But you wouldn't know how to fathom or feel when the wind blows" refers to not knowing what to do about life continuing as usual despite your condition degrading. I think the line "Blown in the wind like a pinned butterfly" refers to just letting life take you wherever it goes and being apathetic to making any changes to it. Love your interpretation honestly.

@agnoffee4574 3 года назад

this was a really interesting interpretation of the song!! [it may be irrelevant to mention, but i always correlated this song with depression as well]

@standardhuman8675 2 месяца назад

i took this as something else entirely, and im too busy to make my own video essay, so its going in a comment i read this song as wanting to get to know someone. not just wanting, needing, yearning to truly know someone, even if they try to make themselves unknowable. the scarecrow is the person i want to know, the birds are other people who judge from a distance without trying to know the person. the wind is the wind, only nature knows how he feels. the "climax" as you called it is him trying to keep his problems away from others, the crows trying to help him but he scares them away. at the "fly", they all give up and leave him, except for me. the end of the song is me checking in with him, telling him that no matter how hard he tries, he wont scare me off and that i wont abandon him. the "do you wanna die?" is me showing concern, and the "how i wonder" is me accepting that ill never truly know his mind, but ill always continue to care ...fuck, i just made this about my fella and i, didnt i?

@akispag1519 15 дней назад

sht…i felt that..

@MinaWalker 11 месяцев назад

I’m thinking about performing this song for an open mic night later this month, either this or “Spring and a Storm” but TallyHall is so good, I can’t decide lol

@PC10.8 3 года назад

Before this analysis I could tell this song was a metaphor for something (most Tally Hall songs are) but I didn’t know what for exactly. After this video though it makes a lot of sense. For someone who previously struggled with depression this adds another layer on to my enjoyment of what is probably in my top 3 Tally Hall songs. Wonderful analysis, very well done. I look forward to seeing what you do next!

@rxdvelvet 3 года назад

thank you so much! very happy to have given some insight!

@idkok8897 2 года назад

A "Mind Electric" analysis next, maybe?

@milquetoast7618 2 года назад

I really liked your interpretation of this song! hymn for a scarecrow has pretty much always been my favourite good & evil track so I'm happy you covered it!

@JoeMama-rh1vb 3 года назад

Great analysis! I noticed the tone of the song, but I never thought of any possible meanings. I like your take on it. I hope you're doing much better now

@rxdvelvet 3 года назад

Thank you so much! I'd like to think I'm doing better :))

@heelturn2 Год назад

thank you joe hawley jerma very cool

@billchifer2434 Год назад

when i was younger, 'round 6, without really analyzing the lyrics i've always felt that this song was kind of sad, idk something about the way joe is singing, the way his voice seems stuck in his throat made me feel so weird as a child, i used to say it made me feel trapped in some ways, but the also, the song has these very open and almost joyful verses, where all the instruments seems to release ??? idk it was what little me was feeling at the time, i still love this song today and now that i (think) understand some parts of the meaning of it 💀💀

@akispag1519 15 дней назад

i really wonder how my younger self would feel with this song, and generally knowing tally hall from a young age must be very at least very interesting

@Simo-yi8tn 2 года назад

i would like to know how this could tie in with the whole good and evil story/theme. a lady and & seem to be setting up the other songs, and the world in which this entire album takes place. there are some exceptions to the theme of course like cannibal, but i think this song is different. i think the song is about the unnamed narrator that is referenced in a lady "showed me that i was a gentleman". in a world where there is only 2 sides to every argument the narrator seems to co-exist in nothing which would explain this song in the story. if we also add the fact that the lady mentioned in "a lady" is probably the "big bad Betty of the 'pocalypses " from "&" and the personification of the end of the world, her telling the narrator who is confused and cant find a side to be on (referencing the lines "between all the land and the sky" with land and sky being the opposite "good & evil") to wait for the girl ( which probably is human kind) to grow where he can, would mean to wait for humanity to change into a civilization where everything isn't as black and white and the narrator can normally exist in, which is probably referencing the world that we are in.

@kitsune630 2 года назад

I wouldnt really say that the album is telling a story, more that its bringing up a concept. The entire album seems to be about clashing feelings and opposites, hell, the second song is basically this concept in a nutshell. It seems like the philosophy of “if theres evil, good will rise up against it” (yes i stole that quote from megamind). Although i am intrigued by the idea of this album telling a story :)

@Simo-yi8tn 2 года назад

@@kitsune630 I’m actually planning on creating a video explaining how the theory works. To summarize it we have a main character, that I decided to call j (because he usually is sang by joe), who sings both a lady and & in protest against the world that he is in. Another character in the story is the big bad Betty of the apocalypse or the lady in a lady. It’s hard to explain every part of it but if u want more info on how stuff works we can talk on discord

@ratmatat 2 года назад

This was a great analysis, this was really in depth.

@anidiot4702 5 месяцев назад

note: “driven away with persistence” does not mean slowly over time, it means to be unmoving. to persist means to remain through tribulation.

@masicbemester 2 года назад

that ending hit pretty hard. I have no other words.

@HoneyAnimates 2 года назад

This is an amazing analysis, i love this song a lot and always thought it was somewhat about depression. good job :D from what I gathered, the scarecrow could be you, or, someone suffering with depression, and the crops it “protects” is its heart, and the crows represent bad people in their life, the scarecrow is trying to protect its “heart” from breaking more from these “bad people” but also feels guilty and bad doing so and still wants these people to stay close bc they are lonely and hurting, that’s why the scarecrow gets frustrated when the crows fly away.

@mr.theking2484 7 месяцев назад

Seing how psychedelic this song is, I think the song is trying to put you into the body of a scarecrow and make you think that you are, in fact, a scarecrow. And all the singers are just spirits talking to the lonely scarecrow.

@paper4732 3 года назад

I hope you're feeling better!! ❤️

@rxdvelvet 3 года назад

thank you!

@liammlee07 Год назад

When I first heard this song I instantly picked up that the melody sounds like Morning Mood by Grieg and makes me love it more!

@Coolguy-ej5lr 3 года назад

Great Analysis! i'd love to see your interpretation of other tally hall songs

@rxdvelvet 3 года назад

thank you so much! ♥️

@reanamacdougall 2 года назад

Whenever I heard the song I pictured like the scarecrow from lake Halia in Legends of Zelda ocarina of time and then apparently a scarecrow in a zalda game was the basis for the song My Brain just kind of,

@lilychicipher 3 года назад

I just found this song today, and then I find this video. Great video

@rxdvelvet 3 года назад

thank you so so much! that means so very much to me! i hope you’re still enjoying the song as well!

@luv4dirt Год назад

i love tally hsll

@Fiskiuggar 10 месяцев назад

Me too

@elliotts7383 3 года назад

Now I love this song even more since it's inspired by ocarina of time.. great video tho, glad to see someone looking into the lyrics

@dion8202 2 года назад

I was vibing with the song today and read the lyrics and started crying. I feel the song is also being alone in depression not having someone who knows. I still have problems talking to others because I'm afraid I'll be hurt again.